PRAYERS OF THE
PEOPLE
First Sunday
of Easter, Year C
April 21,
2019
It is
recommended that the response to the biddings in the Prayers of the People be
sung. A simple, accessible setting for the
suggested response is here: https://aplm2013.blogspot.com/2019/04/music-may-your-holy-spirit-guide-us.html
Please provide appropriate acknowledgement
and only reproduce for use in your congregation.
Even if there is no one is
baptized or engaging in an intentional renewal of baptism (including
Confirmation, or Reception into the Anglican Communion) in your congregation
during the Paschal Triduum or the Season of Easter, you are encouraged to pray
for the newly baptized and those renewing their baptismal promises.
Our God loves the world with an everlasting love,
faithful and near in all times and places.
As we make our declaration,
“God’s steadfast love endures forever,”
let
us lift our hearts in prayer as we sing/say:
“May your Holy Spirit Guide Us Into Truth.”
God,
our strength and our might,
you
have raised us with Christ.
We
pray for your church, particularly in N.
{allow a short
period for silent prayer}
Call
us by name.
Place
the testimony of Mary Magdalene in our mouths.
May
we declare with joy and boldness,
“The
Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!”
To
you we lift our hearts, O God: /R/
God
in whose salvation we rejoice,
we
pray for the recently baptized, especially
N.,
and
for all who celebrated baptismal renewal
during
this Christian Passover, especially N.,
{allow a time of
silent prayer}
Enliven
with your Spirit those whom you have anointed.
Establish
as your witnesses
those
who eat and drink with the risen Lord.
Reveal
your people in the glory of Christ, our life.
To
you we lift our hearts, O God: /R/
God,
whose Messiah is Sovereign of all,
we
pray for the nations and peoples of the earth, especially N.
{allow a time of
silent prayer}
Breathe
resurrection life
into those
suffocated by death’s power.
Stir the
conscience and heart of all who govern.
Say
to the troubled of our world, “Be not afraid!”
To
you we lift our hearts, O God: /R/
God who wipes away the tears from all faces,
we pray for
those longing for deliverance
from fear or
anxiety,
weeping or
despair,
sickness or
any other affliction, especially N.
{allow
time for silent prayer}
Become the salvation of those who call out to you.
Reveal grace in wilderness places.
May glad songs sound in the tents of the righteous.
To
you we lift our hearts, O God: /R/
Judge of the living and the dead,
we remember those whom we love but see no longer, especially N.
{allow a time of
silent prayer}
Make all who die in Adam alive in Christ.
Defeat that final enemy, Death.
May the beloved rejoice,
“I shall not die, but live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.”
To
you we lift our hearts, O God: /R/
The Presider concludes the Prayers of the
People with a Collect such as the following:
Through the resurrection of your Son, O God,
you destroy the power of death
and remove your people’s shame.
By the power of the Spirit, raise us from sin
and seat us at the paschal feast,
that we may rejoice in the gift of salvation,
won for us through Jesus Christ the risen
Lord.
Collect revised from:
“Deposition, Burial and
Resurrection of Christ,” by Guy Roddon.
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